Foureagles

Hey y'all (with an implied "wautch thee-us!"):

I wonder if anyone out there in the great yonder has experience with those plasticky pseudo tire chains? I know what the owner's manual says, have deep experience with real chains and snow driving in general, and once helped a lady outside Denver install the funny cable kind on her Saab.

I must make a quick run next week (probably 2/5 - 2/13) from my idyll of exile in South Carolina home to Colorado and back. The Jeep is of course broken, and too much stuff has to go along to make either Miata an option, so I'll likely be driving Dear Wife's 8 (oh, the sacrifices I make) with it's decidedly non-Midwest-winter-friendly RE040s. Snow tires and rental cars are not in this year's budget, and it takes more time than I have just now to get to my part of Colorado by plane, bus, and thumb.

The route will necessarily be confined to the stinkin' McInterstate until I get to the good places, or until screaming boredom overtakes prudence. There's a little slot of a canyon that will let me get there without braving any major mountain passes more than a piddling 9,000'. I fully expect some snow (hell, the ground’s white here, of all places), and am prepared to sleep in the car rather than risk slithering onward. Still, it would be nice to be able to crawl to a suitable dark spot before stopping.

Back to the point: Along with lots of food, mountaineering gear, and some portable ****, I thought that it might help to carry some o' them plasticky tire chain thingies to maybe help go that extra mile. Whadda y'all think?

Thanks; and be assured that anyone offering real advice will be favored in my decidedly unprofitable will.

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